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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

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Emergency Management for Major Events

CCEM Strategies

There are multiple unique challenges for emergency planners when it comes to hosting global major events. Establishing a unified governance structure helps to form a consolidated view of planning activities, delivery risks, and progress.

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Emergency Preparedness Week reminds us of importance of self-sufficiency for 72 hours

CCEM Strategies

They could include: avalanches pandemics/disease outbreaks earthquakes floods hazardous material spills landslides power outages extreme weather tsunamis wildfires Make an emergency plan Make sure you and your loved ones are on the same page about how you’ll respond to a disaster.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Public Safety Canada defines CI as the processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government. CI can be stand-alone, or cross provincial and/or national borders.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

During these kinds of severe weather events, Governments, multilateral donors, and business executives alike have a responsibility, whether moral or legal, to respond effectively and efficiently in order to protect people, assets, and facilities from harm. They are investing in data collection from spatial and hyper-local data.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more. Prepare My Business for an Emergency.

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CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE – READINESS & RESILIENCY

CCEM Strategies

CI Defined Public Safety Canada defines critical infrastructure as the “processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government.” CI can be stand-alone, or cross provincial or national borders.